[tdwg] Interesting example of tree navigation

[Timothy M. Jones]

This demo appears to address many issues being discussed here - it is 
still under development.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

Surely will not be free or even cheap...but
imagine what someone could do with this,
Tim










Rebecca Shapley wrote:
> Yes, it's a degree of interest interaction. There have been various 
> attempts to implement this DOI idea since it came out, and I'm 
> pointing to this one as a rather novel implementation, that may 
> overcome some of the usability issues seen with hyperbolic trees, etc.
>
> I would definitely test its usability with a taxonomic tree data set 
> and some "normal folk" before advocating it as the ultimate solution 
> for an EOL project. Denise Green and I did these types of usability 
> tests on three interactive tree presentations available in 2005, 
> providing something of a baseline against which this particular 
> interaction style might be judged.  See:  
> http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/TOL/docs/GreenShapleyTOLFinalReport.pdf  
> (4 MB)
>
> -R.
>
>
> On 9/13/07, *Richard Pyle* <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org 
> <mailto:deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>> wrote:
>
>     > As Rod suggested, this is pretty old news.
>
>     This begs the question:  has this style of user-interface failed
>     to catch on
>     more widely because of:
>
>     1) Technological limitations;
>     2) Insufficient creativity and inspiration; or
>     3) Insufficient usability?
>
>     I'm tempted to eliminate #3 on the grounds that I don't think this
>     style of
>     UI has been widespread enough to have been subjected to, and then
>     failed,
>     some sort of usability meta-experiment.
>
>     This is not to say that it won't ultimately fail such a
>     meta-experiment --
>     just that it hasn't really had a chance to fail it yet.
>
>     Rich
>
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